@neil @Edent Fuck no. I'm really not affected anyway since I nuke them at the U-A layer, but I hope instances that respect their users won't turn this on. Cc @hachyderm.

@dalias @neil
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If they did start providing referer information, what privacy do you think you would lose?

@Edent @neil @hachyderm As I said, I block referer at user agent layer, so none for me. But it's bad policy for the public & web at large, doing something that violates user privacy for the sake of giving publishers what they want, and doing that for the sake of "growth" (promoting Mastodon to them).

@dalias There is nuance here though? _some_ (obviously not you I suppose?) fedi users would like there to be better integrations with publishers (for example, I would prefer that the BBC have their own bots rather than RSS re-publishers), but ️‍🌈️‍we live in a society🌈 where you do need to justify doing work, stats help that, and I don't really see a issue if I click a link on mastodon dot social, the BBC knowing that I came from anywhere on mastodon dot social, as @Edent said, there are nuances where you would not want something like that, but generic servers I don't really see the harm, and it does good for a ecosystem (aka, people typically like nice things, this is one of the ways you get nice things)

I just dont understand the threat model of letting the BBC know I came via mastodon.social